Need help with a bash script

[hawihoney]

I'm using this XMLRPC-Client to send "Start/Stop downloads" commands from Tautulli to another Unraid docker container:

 

https://gist.github.com/bjoern-r/c3afda16d45edad5f4a5

 

The last two lines of this script look like this:

curl -k $verbose --data "@$rpcxml" "$servUrl" 2>/dev/null | xmllint --format -
\rm -f $rpcxml

xmllint is not part of Unraid so I removed the pipe:

curl -k $verbose --data "@$rpcxml" "$servUrl" 2>/dev/null
\rm -f $rpcxml

I was under the impression, that "\rm $rpcxml" would remove the temporary xml file in $rpcxml. That does not work. Every RPC request leaves the temp file in the directory.

 

Any help is highly appreciated.

 

Edited September 13, 2019 by hawihoney

[John_M]

What is the purpose of the backslash character before rm?